Unleash the Hounds! (Link Roundup)

There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans out there, sometimes more than I can write about in-depth in any given week. So The Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up.

The Hellenic Council YSEE of America has sent out a press release criticizing an exhibition at the Onassis Cultural Center of New York entitled “Transition to Christianity.” According to YSEE the exhibition’s use of the term “pagan” to describe Hellenic religion is demeaning, and blasts the “ridiculous propaganda” that “attempts to hide the crimes that the Christians committed when they got into a position of power.” Quote: “…the exhibition at the Onassis Center and its message is neither new, nor strange. It is something that we experience on a daily basis through the continuing efforts of the theocratic institutions of the Christian church to propagate the lies about the so-called transition as a natural social evolution.” I’ve posted the entire press release, here.

Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of The Witches’ Voice (on Facebook), arguably the most influential web site within modern Paganism since the Internet launched. My thanks to Wren Walker, Fritz Jung, Peg Aloi, and Diotima Mantineia for their hard work and perseverance. If it wasn’t for Witchvox and Wren’s Nest I sincerely doubt The Wild Hunt would be around today. Pagans of all stripes should thank them for their massive contributions in building today’s Pagan media.

At her blog, T. Thorn Coyle’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day post explores nonviolence, satyagraha, and “diversity of tactics” within the Occupy movement. Quote: “Occupy has also provided inspiration. As long as Occupy Activists continue to choose smart tactics that bring communities together to demand a more just society, it will continue to be a success and we can continue to work in various ways to build a society based on mutual respect, creativity, love, and justice. As long as some Occupy Activists continue to choose to smash windows, light fires, and hurl bottles in small skirmishes with police on the streets after dark, the movement runs the risk of alienating the rest of the community that brought out 10,000 people to shut down the Port of Oakland in November.”

In a final note, I’m going to be travelling to some events in the very near future! I’ll be at FaerieCon West in Seattle the weekend of February 10th, PantheaCon the following weekend, and I’ll be DJing and MC-ing at the brand-new Pagan music and dance festival Hexenfest on March 9th in the Bay Area. If you’re going to be at any of these, be sure to say “hi”!

That’s it for now! Feel free to discuss any of these links in the comments, some of these I may expand into longer posts as needed.

Jason Pitzl-Waters

I understand that relationships are organic in nature but I thought open relationships require consents of ALL parties BEFORE it becomes an issue. Newt had an affair before consenting with his 2nd wife; if wife #2’s story is correct.

Exactly. He didn’t “ask her for an open relationship”. He cheated on her until he got caught, then he basically said, “Well, I like screwing two women, so either shut up about it or take your walking papers”.

kenneth

Gingrich is just basically a self-serving sleazebag and five-star hypocrite. The most disgusting thing about him is that he, to this day, still holds himself as a champion for “traditional values.” He may well have polyamorous leanings deep down. I certainly can’t fault anyone for that, and I’d have some respect for him if he owned up to that and tried his best to do it the right way.

He won’t of course. He’d be the first in line to call poly people or any “alternative lifestyle” people deviants and perverts. Just like the “family values” politicians who spend all day crusading against “sodomites” and their nights cruising for anonymous hookups with male prostitutes. When he’s called out for his obvious hypocrisy, then it’s the “liberal media” who’s the bad guy for pointing it out.

Yeah, pretty much this. From listening to him talk and observing his actions, I honestly think he views women as commodities… interchangeable commodities at that. Not as people who deserve respect from their intimate partners. Gross.

Baruch Dreamstalker

C’mon, Kenneth, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel.

Baruch Dreamstalker

I trust that, while choosing not to speak ill of the dead, you will cut some slack for less universalist, more bellicose Pagan traditions that rejoice at the death of an enemy.

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